Roses in a cardboard box at Frankfurt airport after being freshly flown in from Kenya. Last year, Germany imported some 20 million roses from that African country, the peaks always being the weeks before Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day. In 2013, Frankfurt was ranked No. 8 among the world’s major airports in cargo traffic.
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African Roses
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Movie Riddle of the Day
Guess which movie this is.(A reproduction of an old movie placard seen through an ornamental Cd cover (yeah, that’s a rare thing), in Frankfurt, Apr. 4.
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A Carousel and the Moon
A carousel spins while the moon shines from the clear night sky at Frankfurt’s Dippemess funfair, Mar. 30.
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365 Days in Secondhand Fashion
Hindi Kiflai checks out what is on offer at a secondhand fashion store named “13” in Frankfurt, Feb.3. As a self-experiment, the radio journalist and blogger will wear used outfits for a year and report on it on her blog dailyrewind.de. -
Hot Springs
Two women stand beside the sulfuric vapor of the Kochbrunnen fountain in downtown Wiesbaden, a city some 40 kms (24 mls) west of Frankfurt and capital of the federal state of Hessen. The spa town of Wiesbaden (translating into “meadow baths”) was practically built upon dozens of thermal springs that were already known to the Romans. It is said that they even built recreation pools for Roman army horses here…
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